Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio

Please join the Amatryx lab for our March game night, featuring a game studies research talk on Persona 4 with grad student Tom Kline, and a streaming and gameplay session of Dead By Daylight! This game night is exciting as an introduction to a new lab project focusing on game studies research with Dead By Daylight in collaboration with Daniel Fandino at University of Central Florida. The project will consist of ongoing streaming and community chat events about the game, culminating in an edited collection to be published by McFarland Press. More details about the collection and its call for papers will be available in the coming weeks!

We are excited to host Global Game Jam again this year from January 30-February 1 with our partners Buffalo Game Space, UB Game Dev Club, Media Study, and the Center for the Arts. And we’re thankful for food from our sponsors including Sunshine Vegan Eats!

Global Game Jam is the biggest annual game jam and is a great opportunity to make a game either solo or with team members in just three days. No prior experience required—if you’re interested in games and want to help make one, please join us! Professional mentors will be on hand all weekend. Snacks and food for most meals will be provided–specifically, we will definitely have catered food for dinners all three days, and are hoping to have donuts for breakfast and sandwiches for lunches too. The building will be open until 10 PM on Friday, 9 AM-11 PM on Saturday, and 9 AM-10 PM on Sunday. We hope to see you there!

Make sure to register for free using the link or QR code on the flyer. Same day registration is allowed (but please register in advance to help us with food orders!), and participants can come and go all weekend as needed.

Happy Monday! Be sure to mark your calendars!

Join the Amatryx Gaming Lab next Tuesday, September 30th from 6-8pm in CFA 235 for our monthly lab game night! Here we'll be taking a look at lab member work from Tom Kline's current project 'Paradise Theater', as well as playing the indie RPG 'OFF', together!

Amatryx is also seeking new members! If you're someone interested in game design, social justice, or storytelling, Amatryx is the place for you! You don't have to be a designer to join, just a passion for games and intersectional values.

Snacks will be provided, we hope to see you there! 🫰

And mark your calendars for our other game nights this semester:
Thursday, October 30 (with Art in the Open)
Tuesday, November 18
Tuesday, December 9

We're excited to share not one, but TWO game nights taking place this month!

Please join us for the next Amatryx Game Night taking place Thursday, April 17 from 6-8 PM in CFA 235. For this game night, we’ll have lab members Eliana Freeman sharing her in-progress game project and Tom Kline sharing a conference presentation on the game Control. For our fun play portion, we’ll be playing Dragon Age: Veilguard together. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. Please share the flyer with your classes and networks, and let us know if you have any ideas for future game nights—we’re happy to feature work across media!

We will also be having a second game night on Tuesday, April 29 to coincide with the Spring Into Art event in the CFA: https://www.ubcfa.org/events-exhibitions/special-events/spring-into-art-2025.html

This second game night will be a celebration of student game development and game research projects this year, and will be open to any students who want to share. Get in touch with Cody if you want to show your game project at the event!

Please join us for Global Game Jam next weekend! Registration is free, you can come and go as your schedule demands, and food will be provided!

Hosted by Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio, Buffalo Game Space, UB Game Dev Club, Department of Media Study, and Center for the Arts, University at Buffalo.

Hi Everyone!
Attached please find two Amatryx flyers: the first for our game night on Tuesday, October 29 featuring a new board game by lab member Max Wilde, followed by play time of student game projects and the recently released Silent Hill 2 remake. This game night coincides with the Art in the Open event, and will be one small part of the festivities that night in the Center for the Arts at UB. Come check out our games, enjoy some cookies, and see Art in the Open, all in a convenient one stop shop evening!

The second flyer is a recruitment flyer for the Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio. In the past year we’ve had wonderful lab members graduate and move on to other jobs and projects, and the lab is open and accepting new undergraduate, graduate, and faculty members! Now is a great time to get involved with the lab as we begin work on a couple new projects, including pulling together our next grant project, Gaming in the Rust Belt, focused on game stories, communities, and development in the Rust Belt region.

Please share the flyers with anyone who might be interested. Thanks to Famous and Dana for the flyers!

Please see the attached flyer for the first Amatryx game night of the semester, happening on Tuesday, September 24 in CFA 235 from 6-8 PM. For this first game night, we’ll be featuring games by lab members Joan Nobile and Famous Clark, followed by some just-for-fun play time of Age of Mythology Retold, a spinoff of the classic Age of Empires games. We’ll also have a brief QA session about Amatryx’s work, current projects, and how to join for those interested—we are welcoming new members!

Each month Amatryx hosts a game night with the first half dedicated to constructive feedback on creative projects (including but not limited to games—we’ve featured poetry, electronic literature, short films, and more!) and the second half dedicated to playing a game together for fun. Lab members get priority for sharing their creative projects at game nights, but we also welcome folks outside of the lab or games courses to share their work too—just let us know, and we can work you into the schedule! Snacks and refreshments provided at each game night.

About Amatryx:
Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio (AGLS) is a lab in the Department of Media Study at University at Buffalo dedicated to gaming, virtual reality, social justice, and community storytelling projects. The lab combines cutting edge research on games, culture, and narrative with development projects in analogue, digital, and virtual reality games. Amatryx is committed to the diverse exploration of social justice narratives with intersectional q***r and feminist values, such as antinormativity, relationality, coalitionality, and resistance. Here we think critically about play and narrative as means for imagining more equitable and transformative futures. We strive to act ethically and with integrity as we interact with and empower our members and the communities we aim to serve.

Really excited to share an episode of Gayming Podcast, the podcast for Gayming Magazine, that Cody got to be a part of! This episode celebrates 35 years since CM Ralph published Caper in the Castro, a foundational q***r game released as "charityware" during the AIDS crisis. Huge thanks to Robin and Miabyte for hosting Cody, and to Adrienne Shaw who recommended them for it!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/27xRbSA2ksAS8WLKA9RECS?si=7sFQh2UETXyt4WmCPXBdUg

History of Q***r Games - Gayming Podcast for DIGIPRIDE 2024 Listen to this episode from Gayming Podcast on Spotify. On this episode of the Gayming Podcast, host Mia is joined by guest host Robin and special guest Assistant Professor Cody Mejeur to talk about the history of q***r games. This year marks 35 years since the release of Caper in the Castro, recogn...

Hello All,
Please join us for an Amatryx game night on Tuesday, 4/9, from 6-8 PM in CFA 286. This game night will feature feedback and discussion of Tansy Xiao’s VR work—Tansy is an artist in residence in Buffalo right now, and was also part of the Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 exhibition last August. After the feedback session we will be playing Detroit: Become Human together as part of ongoing discussions of the lab’s next project that we’re calling Gaming in the Rust Belt, focusing on game content, culture, and production in Rust Belt settings, including Buffalo.

Please join us for the next Amatryx game night on Tuesday, March 12 at 6 PM in CFA 286, featuring in-progress work by Madison Ford (please see attached flyer). After the presentation and discussion, we’ll be playing Mario Party and Mario Kart games on the Nintendo Switch together.